Legal Notices 102-107: Commencement of Budget Amendment Acts and Amendments to Accident Compensation and Insurance Regulations

297 No. 37 GOVERNMENT OF FIJI GAZETTE SUPPLEMENT TUESDAY, 2nd AUGUST 2022 EXTRAORDINARY [LEGAL NOTICE NO. 102] FIJI NATIONAL PROVIDENT FUND (BUDGET AMENDMENT) ACT 2020 _______ Commencement Notice IN exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 1(2) of the Fiji National Provident Fund (Budget Amendment) Act 2020, I hereby appoint 1 November 2022 as the commencement date of sections 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10(a) of the Fiji National Provident Fund (Budget Amendment) Act 2020. Dated this 2nd day of August 2022. A. SAYED-KHAIYUM Attorney-General and Minister for Economy [LEGAL NOTICE NO. 103] PHARMACY PROFESSION (BUDGET AMENDMENT) ACT 2022 _______ Commencement Notice IN exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 1(2) of the Pharmacy Profession (Budget Amendment) Act 2022, I hereby appoint 2 August 2022 as the commencement date of section 15 of the Pharmacy Profession (Budget Amendment) Act 2022. Dated this 2nd day of August 2022. I. WAQAINABETE Minister for Health and Medical Services [LEGAL NOTICE NO. 104] MEDICINAL PRODUCTS (BUDGET AMENDMENT) ACT 2022 _______ Commencement Notice IN exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 1(2) of the Medicinal Products (Budget Amendment) Act 2022, I hereby appoint 2 August 2022 as the commencement date of section 8 of the Medicinal Products (Budget Amendment) Act 2022. Dated this 2nd day of August 2022. I. WAQAINABETE Minister for Health and Medical Services

298 [LEGAL NOTICE NO. 105] MEDIA INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT (BUDGET AMENDMENT) ACT 2022 _______ Commencement Notice IN exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 1(2) of the Media Industry Development (Budget Amendment) Act 2022, I hereby appoint 3 August 2022 as the commencement date of the Media Industry Development (Budget Amendment) Act 2022. Dated this 2nd day of August 2022. A. SAYED-KHAIYUM Attorney-General and Minister for Economy [LEGAL NOTICE NO. 106] ACCIDENT COMPENSATION ACT 2017 ________ Accident Compensation (Levies) (Amendment) Regulations 2022 IN exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 35 of the Accident Compensation Act 2017 and following consultation with the Accident Compensation Commission Fiji, I hereby make these Regulations— Short title and commencement 1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Accident Compensation (Levies) (Amendment) Regulations 2022. (2) These Regulations are deemed to have come into force on 1 August 2022. Regulation 3 amended 2. Regulation 3 of the Accident Compensation (Levies) Regulations 2017 is amended by deleting subregulation (1A) and substituting the following— “(1A) Notwithstanding subregulation (1), the owner of a motor vehicle must, upon the registration or renewal of registration of the motor vehicle with the Authority, pay to the Authority 50% of the annual Motor Vehicle Accident Levy as set out in the Schedule, for the period commencing on and from 1 August 2022 to 31 July 2023.”. Made this 2nd day of August 2022. A. SAYED-KHAIYUM Attorney-General and Minister for justice

299 [LEGAL NOTICE NO. 107] INSURANCE ACT 1998 ________ Insurance (Amendment) Regulations 2022 IN exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 169(1) of the Insurance Act 1998, I hereby make these Regulations— Short title and commencement 1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Insurance (Amendment) Regulations 2022. (2) These Regulations are deemed to have come into force on 1 August 2022. (3) In these Regulations, the Insurance Regulations 1998 is referred to as the “Principal Regulations”. Regulation 2 amended 2. Regulation 2 of the Principal Regulations is amended by— (a) in subregulation (1) after “column 2”, inserting “including the fees for each year of the term of a licence issued”; and (b) after subregulation (2), inserting the following new subregulation—  “(3) In this regulation, “term” means the total number of years that a licence is issued for, to a person applying to carry on a business as an agent for an insurer under section 42 of the Act.”. Schedule 1 amended 3. Schedule 1 to the Principal Regulations is amended in paragraphs 5 and 6 after “licence” wherever it appears by inserting “(for each year of term of licence)”. Schedule 2 amended 4. Schedule 2 to the Principal Regulations is amended in Form 4 after “RENEWAL APPLICATION ” by inserting the following— “Term: 1 yr 2 yrs 3 yrs 4 yrs 5 yrs ”. Made this 2nd day of August 2022. A. SAYED-KHAIYUM Attorney-General and Minister for Economy Price: 52c NITESH A. PRASAD, SERENDIB INVESTMENT PTE LTD, (Acting Government Printer), Suva, Fiji – 2022 135/FGGS/22—269 Official Printer Since 2019